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I'm hoping to be able to make it this year.

Hope you can Richie! Haven’t seen you in years.

The Santa beard all fell out:eek: along with my hair in most places and some you wouldn't have thought of

Well if COB is coming guess this blind guy is coming too!

I met with a gent at the Rock today on a potential sale deal, and had time to do 25 birds on the main course with my Baker SBT gun, 32-incher with 38 points of choke. I joined up with a group and did the menu birds as "singles on call". 5 stations at 4 birds each and one station at 5 birds. A tightly choked Trap gun can be a real teacher on a sporting course with quartering, crossers, incomers, dropping, battue, etc birds. Hit or miss, very few chips and X's on the card as with lucky fringe hits while using an open choked gun.

Frank could you not have shot a little better? :cool:

Yeah man!!! It'll be great to have you here too!! Shooting or not, you are always welcome. Besides, someone has to keep Richie in line.

Good to hear you both will be there, looking forward to it

Reservations are made and I will be there for my first time. Looking forward to it.

I am trying to figure out the logistics. Want to come very bad

The Boy Scouts did a bang up job last year! Looking forward and hope to have a rematch with those tiny black glider squirrels coming off the top. They are like watching a barber pole too long then they switch places. Once again Harold and I escorted the bling taker last week. Our examples of how not to do it are in high demand.

I remember those high long dropping clays from several years ago. Somehow I did pretty well on them. I hope to get back to Rock Mountain again. Mike has some great courses - lotsa fun for sure!!





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Mike really does have one the best courses as far as target presentations that you can find. He is not known as "Evil Mike" for no good reason.:):eek:

Agreed Daryl. I hate to brag on him but his target setting for SxS shooters is excellent. Now he's really gonna have the big head :bigbye:

Too late Randy.... he already has but we still love him.

Indeed; the Italian shooters who come over from Europe for international competitions refer to him as, "Testa Grande."

Heck with the darn targets I'm kinda intrested in what the deer situation is like in his area ? Last time I hunted the Poconos about 15 years ago it was a bit on the bleak side .

The deer population in the area is well-regulated and jealously guarded by the locals. That said, I have seen deer feeding nearby while we were shooting and spotted fawns casually observing us with big curious eyes.





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I hunted Wayne , Monroe and Pike counties a good bit in the early 2000's . Strangely I killed more deer then my buddies from PA . But they all liked sitting out and smoking cigars while they waited . And while these same guys used treestands when we hunted the Eastern Shore of MD they wouldn't use one in the Poconos . But most of those guys hadn't killed two dozen deer in their entire life , where as with the liberal seasons and kill permits we have in VA I've had years that I'd kill close to that many .

The year I lived in Dickson City which is right outside of Scranton I worked with a bunch of guys that hunted Susquehanna County and they had decent seasons but they also had leases in the Binghamton area .

It's a big difference in the Northeast vs most states in the south . You guys maybe have a couple weeks where as we have a couple months . Also our bag limits far exceed what you guys are even remotely used to .

Over the border in NY we have the biggest deer herd we've had in 10-15 years. They had a tough, long winter, now so far a dry birthing season and we may have yet another bump in population.

Deer are like vermin. They eat everything. If they don't eat it the bucks snap the saplings off. We planted well over 1000 trees in the last few years and if it is a mast tree we have to tube & stake and/or fence them in until the branches are above the browse line and trunks sturdy enough to hold up to rubbing. We average 13-14 deer off of our property every year. Only allowed 1 buck and it must have minimum 3 points on one side for PGC requirements, I want only 2 1/2 YO and up buck killed) and up until this year we could only take 3 doe with proper permits. Six weeks of archery, two weeks of rifle and three-four weeks of flintlock/archery. We also have almost four weeks of bear season. I usually score on a buck in archery and have two doe down before rifle. I like to save one doe tag for my "rifle of the year" experiment.

Not uncommon for me to have to chase fawns away from the shooting areas.

I've got maybe 120 azalea bushes on a bank right beside the house and when I say right beside at one point all you can do is drive the lawnmower one swipe between the house and the bushes .

Anyway we had right much snow one year in January/February . That lane between the house and the bushes looked like a cow path from deer traffic and all the azaleas got pruned . We've got this ivy kinda stuff growing up some of the tree's in the front yard . This stuff my mother planted many years ago , anyway one day during this snow period I looked out in the middle of the day and two yearling deer that had made it thru hunting season were out there eating the ivy because they'd trimmed back the azaleas already .

Mike K

Do you have any Hotel’s set up with a group rate.

Thanks.

Brian, the Hampton Inn and Comfort Inn in Tunkhannock have rates for all of our events. Just tell them you are shooting at Rock Mountain.

Mike,

Can we rent golf carts? Uddvar can’t walk long distances.

John

John, as the registration form says you can rent carts from Empire. Their contact info is on the registration and our website. All of the Empire cart rentals are done directly with Empire. You reserve with them and pay them directly. THX.

Plenty of misinformation regarding room rates at Hampton Inn and Comfort Inn. Hampton Inn price (regular rate $209) is $119/night and you better reserve soon as the gas guys are coming back in. Comfort Inn regular rate is $179/King. Rock Mt rate is $139. Comfort Inn may not have rooms available as they have arrangements with the gas companies and the end of July they may be full. Shadowbrook Inn and Resort has rooms and they are usually around $100 or less. Skyview Motel has rooms and they are all under $100.

Thank you Mike for clarification. I called the Hampton Inn last night and the person working the desk had no information on your rate they quoted me the $209. I just booked a room no problem at $119.

THX Mike. I should read first, ask questions later.

Not a problem John.

I rented an Empire cart this past weekend and had already reserved one for your shoot several weeks ago . Just wish the darn things had mudder tires on the back :rotf:

I hear ya Craig. I pushed more than one buggy last week. 😎

I did not hear of any carts getting stuck but I did hear rumor of a van with PA plates that bottomed out and had to be pulled out. :corn:

I almost stuck my cart friday morning at the place you go thru the fence . But if I'd had mudders on the rears instead of golf course tires I don't think I'd have had any issues .

Mike, the Fox guys had some heavy iron on standby for pulls but when the driver (El Capitan) saw you getting mud sprayed he just LHAO. :rotf:

I didn’t get muddy nor stuck. Push between the tires, not from a rear corner and the rooster-tails miss you!! �� Chuck could have used that ol’ mudder Friday AM!